This piece is about the longing for a family from the perspective of a rejected young person, that I went through and that many of us have felt. Sylvie sings an aria to her ghost twin, Silvia, who vanished to a place where reality turns out to be unsubstantial.

My method is to confront two characters created at different moments, so as to exacerbate the diachronic line on which we build reality. This installation connects a character from Plaisir d’amour, a poem by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, with another one from the story Upon the Dull Earth, by Philip K. Dick. The final piece is a wooden cuneiform structure that crosses the room from side to side. At one end, there are stairs, and at the other end, there is a ramp. At the centre, an empty wooden trough relates to a sculpture of a Line Array (reconstructed in wood) that plays a contemporary version of Plaisir d’amour –reaching a schizophrenic moment.

The work presents fragmented signs realised as wooden objects and sound played by a loudspeaker, which are poetic indicators of parallel moments. The installation is like a cover, for those who like the sensation of familiarity. A central aspect of this work is the consideration of how a person loses another person and themselves, and of which meanings and traits change in the process. It all takes place on a somewhat solemn stage stolen from science fiction.